YAPQ (yet another prompt question)

[Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl]

In article <13542 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
]>In article <2113 at infmx.UUCP> aland at infmx.UUCP (alan denney) writes:
]=In article <1356 at unhd.unh.UUCP> rg at unh.UUCP (Roger   Gonzalez) writes:
]=|
]=|Since a child 'csh' is spawned whenever I 'su', I thought it would be
]=|nice to have the prompt reflect the 'su-ed' state.  Hence, in .cshrc, I
]=|had:
]=|[problem text deleted]
[various flames deleted]

Since Roger is obviousely using csh, how about the following

alias su '/bin/su \!:* -c "exec csh"'

That ought to always force a csh invocation of the su, without the parent
sh hanging around...


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